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So sick of this idiot - who can possibly take him seriously any more
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Only the far left.
He has been a joke for a very long time.
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The amount of air time this fool gets is ridiculous.
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Libfags melting Down over this
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No. He's a true civil rights activist who put his health and well being on the line to fight for what he believed in.
For you to minimize that is kind of shitty. :-\
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No. He's a true civil rights activist who put his health and well being on the line to fight for what he believed in.
For you to minimize that is kind of shitty. :-\
F him. Same as McCAin. Like Al Buddy forever living off glory of 59 years ago.
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John Lewis's is the same fag who lied about being spit on during Obamacare debate
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No. He's a true civil rights activist who put his health and well being on the line to fight for what he believed in.
For you to minimize that is kind of shitty. :-\
A looooooooooong time ago.
Trump is right again on this guy - 16 terms in office = all talk. He pops up when dems need street cred but has changed nothing.
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F him. Same as McCAin. Like Al Buddy forever living off glory of 59 years ago.
This
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After Trump called McCain a loser--that's when I called it quits on him (no matter how cool he seemed at the time) *AND* the GOP.
McCain is many things, but disagree or agree, he's a legit war hero.
You don't disrespect war heroes, especially from that generation. Not in my book.
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After Trump called McCain a loser--that's when I called it quits on him (no matter how cool he seemed at the time) *AND* the GOP.
McCain is many things, but disagree or agree, he's a legit war hero.
You don't disrespect war heroes, especially from that generation. Not in my book.
Lewis can F off. He attacked trump first. Guess what trump doesn't sit like a piñata. He fights back.
As for MCain - he gets respect for his service - but that doesn't give him endless career Blanche to do whatever.
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Asinine for Lewis to say. Childish and beneath Trump to respond. They both need to shut up.
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The REAL John Lewis .... since 1965
Thanks, John Lewis. Now Go Away.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/thanks_john_lewis_now_go_away.html
FR thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3514797/posts
From Article Link:
For all his years in Congress, Lewis has “opposed every piece of criminal justice or welfare reform legislation that would make the people of his district safer, more self-reliant, and more prosperous,” Trent writes.
The robustly self-righteous lawmaker is now in the media spotlight because he refuses to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, who becomes president Friday. He pigheadedly insists that Trump is not “a legitimate president” based on the flimsy, unproven theory that, in his words, “the Russians participated in helping this man get elected” at the expense of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In light of all this, Lewis’s slight of Trump and his embrace of the trendy myth, risen from the fever swamps of the left, of all-powerful Russian electoral interference are so insignificant in the vast catalog of horrors that is his career in activism and electoral politics that they are barely worth mentioning.
Lewis has spent decades trying to undermine America and siding with its enemies, as Discover the Networks has documented.
In the 1960s and ‘70s, he worked with members of the Socialist Workers Party and a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) front group called the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
In 1989, the Sandinista-led Communist government of Nicaragua renounced a ceasefire agreement with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels, the House of Representatives voted 379 to 29 for a resolution deploring the Nicaraguan action. Lewis was one of the 29 Democrats who voted nay.
In 1989, he was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies, a North Carolina-based spinoff of the seditious Marxist think-tank known as the Institute for Policy Studies.
In 2003, he wrote an op-ed for the CPUSA paper People’s Weekly World, titled “An Open letter to my Colleagues in Congress: Remembering the Legacy of Martin Luther King.” In 2015, Massachusetts CPUSA leader Gary Dotterman called Lewis “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend.”
In 2007, he was an honored guest at the national conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, a Marxist group. He provided an introduction to Bernie Sanders.
In 2009, when the House voted 345 to 75 to defund the criminal, corrupt Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Lewis voted to continue feeding taxpayer funds to the now defunct group.
Lewis supports amnesty for illegal aliens and opposes securing the border. In 2011, he told a rally, “We all live in the same house[.] … If any one of us is illegal, then we all are illegal. There is no illegal human being.”
In 2014, after thousands of mostly unaccompanied Central American minors crossed the southern border illegally, Lewis cheered them on. “We are all connected. We can’t just build a wall or a fence and say no more. This is America. Our doors are open.”
Republicans who don’t agree with Lewis are routinely smeared as black-hating racists.
In 2008, Lewis accused presidential running mates John McCain and Sarah Palin of “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
In 2010, Lewis and other black Democrat lawmakers falsely claimed that conservative Tea Party activists shouted the “N-word” at them at an anti-Obamacare protest on the steps of Capitol Hill. “It surprised me that people are so mean and we can’t engage in a civil dialogue and debate,” he said at the time.
At the Democratic National Convention in 2012, Lewis accused Republicans of trying to restore Jim Crow-like segregation in the country.
In January 2016, he hurled the George Wallace smear at Donald Trump.
This is not an exhaustive list.
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On Lewis (1/17)
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Whats the "WP" in Trumps tweet above?
WP = White Power? ???
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WP = White Power? ???
1488
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WP = White Power? ???
probably washington post.
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Lewis can F off. He attacked trump first. Guess what trump doesn't sit like a piñata. He fights back.
As for MCain - he gets respect for his service - but that doesn't give him endless career Blanche to do whatever.
Presidents are attacked all the time....they can't respond back to everyone....its beneath the office to do that
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Well, Trump now knows what it feel like. He not only called Obama illegitimate but also said that he wasn't even an American citizen.
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Well, Trump now knows what it feel like. He not only called Obama illegitimate but also said that he wasn't even an American citizen.
trump played us birthers big time - no denying that man
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trump played us birthers big time - no denying that man
Nope, Trump is president so he needs to quit jumping at every piece of criticism leveled against him
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Nope, Trump is president so he needs to quit jumping at every piece of criticism leveled against him
I agree - he should leave these things to his underlings and leave this crap alone.
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John Lewis...Dragged out of the crypt to go at Trump...Total coincidence that he was doing this on MLK weekend. So transparent, refreshing to see some not being scared into not responding to this idiot.
Another useful tool to Progressives.
Another (D) house negro, a slave if you will.
Now back to the plantation, Mr Lewis or it's the whip for you!
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I agree - he should leave these things to his underlings and leave this crap alone.
Disagree. They've been saying this over and over again since he began running. Has only helped him.
Effective way of putting out the true facts in front of millions. Expose the trash.
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Nope, Trump is president so he needs to quit jumping at every piece of criticism leveled against him
Trump was not your usual presidential candidate, and that won him the presidential election. Hopefully, Trump won't be your usual president either.
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Sharpton defends John Lewis' claim and says the process that elected Trump 'was not legitimate'
The London Daily Mail ^ | January 17, 2017 | Nikki Schwab, US political reporter
Posted on 1/18/2017, 3:00:39 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Al Sharpton backed up his fellow civil rights leader, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who last week questioned the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump.
'I think there is no question that the process that elected him was not legitimate,' Sharpton said yesterday on MSNBC, the network where he also hosts a show.
Since Lewis said that he didn't view Trump as a 'legitimate president,' he's been whacked around by the president-elect, who continued to tweet about the civil rights leader and Democratic congressman today.
During the interview and citing intelligence reports that pointed to Russian interference, Sharpton said the electoral process was flawed, noting that 'public discourse' was likely impacted by the revelations stemming from the hacked emails.
He also said the electoral college tilted toward Trump because of the many people who were 'expunged from ... being able to vote.'
'Clearly the process has some serious questions about it,' Sharpton said....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Sharpton defends John Lewis' claim and says the process that elected Trump 'was not legitimate'
The London Daily Mail ^ | January 17, 2017 | Nikki Schwab, US political reporter
Posted on 1/18/2017, 3:00:39 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Al Sharpton backed up his fellow civil rights leader, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who last week questioned the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump.
'I think there is no question that the process that elected him was not legitimate,' Sharpton said yesterday on MSNBC, the network where he also hosts a show.
Since Lewis said that he didn't view Trump as a 'legitimate president,' he's been whacked around by the president-elect, who continued to tweet about the civil rights leader and Democratic congressman today.
During the interview and citing intelligence reports that pointed to Russian interference, Sharpton said the electoral process was flawed, noting that 'public discourse' was likely impacted by the revelations stemming from the hacked emails.
He also said the electoral college tilted toward Trump because of the many people who were 'expunged from ... being able to vote.'
'Clearly the process has some serious questions about it,' Sharpton said....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sharpton is a moron...the same process elected Obama. Ok to complain about hacks but Hillary is still responsible for her private server
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John Lewis Disgraces Himself
Frontpagaemagazine ^ | 1-18-19 | John Perazzo
Posted on 1/19/2017, 8:18:10 AM by SJackson
John Lewis Disgraces Himself
If a good man turns bad, are we required to pretend, for the rest of his life, that he is still good? Do such a man's earlier good deeds render him strictly off-limits from any and all subsequent criticism until the end of time? Is he entitled to be revered indefinitely as a hero, an icon, or a saint, even if he has spent the past half-century proving himself to be a vile race-baiter, an ally of America's enemies, and a liar who repeatedly bears false witness against his fellow man?
We can answer all these questions by examining the track record of Democratic congressman John Lewis, who has vowed to boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on grounds that Trump is not “a legitimate president.” Incidentally, that was the same rationale Lewis used sixteen years ago, when he likewise boycotted the inauguration of George W. Bush.
Yes, we all know about Lewis's days as a good guy in the early Sixties, when he took part in the Freedom Rides that challenged segregation across the South, and when he was arrested and beaten for his participation in civil-rights actions in places like South Carolina and Alabama.
But in addition to that, are we, by any chance, allowed to also remember that from 1962-64 Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee? Trevor Loudon's extraordinary research has laid bare this fact and many others about Lewis's past.
How about the fact that in 1964 Lewis praised Norman Thomas—a six-time U.S. presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket—as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality”? Are we permitted to be unsettled by that?
Is it okay if we find it curious that in 1965 Lewis became the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America?
Are we allowed to raise an eyebrow over the fact that in '65 as well, Lewis penned an article for a Communist propaganda magazine in which he lauded Paul Robeson, a Communist Party member who had been a devoted admirer of the late Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin?
Or must we, as proof of our moral virtue and good manners, dutifully turn a blind eye to all these things?
Is it permissible to be unimpressed by the fact that in the late Sixties, Lewis was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization that served as a front for the Socialist Workers Party?
Are we allowed to wonder why, in May 1973, Lewis co-sponsored “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a Communist Party front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis?
Are we permitted to think it less-than-wonderful that in 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies—a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies—in light of the fact that the IPS was described in 1983 by then-Secretary of State George Shultz as an organization “which has for 20 years consistently supported foreign policy objectives that serve the interests of the Soviet Union”?
Would it be okay for some of us to take offense at Lewis's assertion in March 1995—four months after the Republican Party had won House and Senate majorities on the strength of its “Contract With America”—that Republicans were akin to Nazis intent upon exploiting and abusing “the children,” “the poor,” “the sick,” “the elderly,” and “the disabled”?
Or must we forever bow our heads and genuflect whenever Lewis's name is mentioned?
Are we permitted to wonder why Lewis in 2003 contributed an article to the Communist newspaper People's Weekly World?
Are we allowed to question why Lewis in 2007 was a special guest at the annual conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization whose explicit aim is to “radically transform” the American government and economy?
Are we permitted to find it disgraceful that when the House of Representatives in 2009 voted overwhelmingly to defund the notoriously corrupt, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN—which had elevated voter-registration fraud into a veritable art form—Lewis was one of the relatively few Democrats who voted to continue pouring rivers of taxpayer dollars into that moral cesspool?
Are we allowed to be outraged by the fact that in mid-July 2014, after scores of thousands of (mostly unaccompanied) Central American minors had crossed the southern U.S. border illegally since October of the previous year, Lewis called for open borders and proudly declared that “our doors are open”?
Or must we perpetually build shrines in Lewis's honor?
Are we permitted to be repulsed by the fact that in October 2008, Lewis likened Republican presidential candidate John McCain and and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to George Wallace, the former the segregationist former governor of Alabama who had “created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans”?
Are we allowed to think badly of Lewis for having lied in 2010 when he said that conservative Tea Party protesters on the steps of Capitol Hill had shouted the “N-word” at him as he walked past them?
Is it permissible to be disgusted by Lewis's claim—in a speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012—that Republicans were eager to bring back the days of Jim Crow segregation and bloody violence against blacks?
And are we allowed to wonder why Gary Dotterman, a prominent Communist Party member in Massachusetts, described Lewis in 2015 as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend”?
The great scholar and author Thomas Sowell, writing about the grotesque moral decline which the NAACP had undergone over a period of decades, once noted that “in time even monuments can become overgrown by weeds,” and “even a great crusade can degenerate into a hustle.”
Once-respectable individuals can likewise degenerate into malevolent hustlers. If you need proof, just look at John Lewis.
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The Libs and the media tell us to we cant forget what john Lewis did in the past, but when it came to Robert Byrd (KKK) we were supposed to forget his past... ::)
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Grow Up: Lewis,Thompson to Skip Opening of Civil Rights Museum Because Trump's Going
Townhall.com ^ | December 7, 2017 | Leah Barkoukis
Posted on 12/7/2017, 8:46:28 PM by Kaslin
Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) announced they will no longer be attending the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Saturday because President Trump will be there.
The two African American congressmen issued a joint statement about their decision, arguing Trump’s presence ‘disrespects’ the efforts of Mississippi’s black civil rights leaders.
"Trump’s attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this civil rights museum. The struggles represented in this museum exemplify the truth of what really happened in Mississippi. President Trump’s disparaging comments about women, the disabled, immigrants and National Football League players disrespect the efforts of Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, Robert Clark, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and countless others who have given their all for Mississippi to be a better place."
The two said all Mississippians and Americans should visit the museum, but only after Trump leaves.
Lewis and Thompson aren’t the only ones boycotting the opening because of Trump. Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus and state Rep. Sonya Williams Barnes (D-Gulfport), who chairs the Black Caucus, also announced they’ll be staying away from the museum’s opening.
“This institution and event should be a celebration of the hard-won progress in civil rights, but the main speaker, Donald Trump, is actively attacking that progress and turning us back to the dark days of hatred and division,” Mabus said. “Donald Trump represents the exact opposite of what this museum is about — honoring the heroes who fought for, and often died for, the idea of equality of all.”
Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been a frequent critic of the president and previously sparred with him over Twitter after saying he didn’t feel Trump was a “legitimate president.”
In response, Trump said the Democrat should “spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.”
Not surprisingly, Lewis was one of the 58 Democrats who voted to begin the impeachment process against Trump.
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The Libs and the media tell us to we cant forget what john Lewis did in the past, but when it came to Robert Byrd (KKK) we were supposed to forget his past... ::)
I believe the term is north american pavement ape.
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Black Dems take lead in push to impeach Trump
The Hill ^ | 2/1/2018
Posted on 2/1/2018, 5:26:06 PM by Altura Ct.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are proving central to efforts to impeach President Trump.
Black lawmakers say that’s the result of Trump repeatedly stirring racial controversies, from personally attacking two members of the caucus to casting equal blame on white supremacists and counterprotesters for fatal violence in Charlottesville, Va., last summer.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), former head of the CBC, said the bitter feelings originated well before Trump arrived in office, when the real estate mogul began raising doubts about former President Obama’s birthplace — and, by extension, his authority to be president.
“I don’t know if the people around the country understand that he has launched … an assault against African-American people starting with his refusal to accept the first African-American president, by continuing to declare that he was from Kenya,” Cleaver said. “No other president in history has had to face that kind of criticism.
“We’ve come to conclude that this is a part of his belief system.”
Just under two-thirds of the 48-member CBC has backed impeachment in House floor votes forced by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), himself a CBC member. The CBC includes two senators, two nonvoting delegates and one Republican, Rep. Mia Love (Utah), who does not support impeaching Trump.
CBC members made their disgust for Trump clear at Tuesday night’s State of the Union, where many pointedly refrained from clapping or shaking his hand — or skipped the event altogether.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was positioned along the center aisle, but kept his distance as GOP colleagues nearby enthusiastically jostled to shake Trump’s hand on national television. Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett (D) stood with her arms crossed as Trump walked past.
Most CBC members, including the group’s leader, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), sat down well before Trump reached the dais and refrained from joining the raucous applause emanating from the GOP side of the chamber.
And that’s just the reaction from CBC members who attended Trump’s State of the Union. More than half of the 14 House Democrats who boycotted the speech were members of the caucus.
The articles of impeachment put forth by Green don’t allege Trump has committed a crime; instead, they assert that Trump has “brought the high office of president of the United States in contempt, ridicule, disgrace and disrepute” and “has sown discord among the people of the United States.”
Green’s articles cite Trump’s reported comments in an Oval Office meeting about immigration policy describing Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries”; the president’s equivocating response to the Charlottesville violence; and Trump’s attacks on NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality.
Green argued that Trump is “legitimizing bigotry” by aggravating such controversies.
Saying that certain countries of color are s-hole countries … and then saying it as you’re discussing a ‘merit-based’ immigration policy. Is it really a merit-based policy, or a race-based policy masquerading as merit-based?” Green said. “This bigotry is being evinced in policy.”
The “shithole” controversy led the CBC to stage another protest at Tuesday’s State of the Union: Almost all members of the group in attendance that evening donned ties or shawls made of kente cloth — a colorful fabric originating in Ghana.
Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the third-ranking House Democrat and a veteran of the civil rights movement, said Wednesday that the message was one of “solidarity with Haiti, El Salvador and those countries on the continent of Africa that were referred to by our president in very derogatory terms.”
“We thought that it was necessary for us to demonstrate, as members of the Congress, our displeasure with the president,” he said.
Clyburn is the highest-ranking House Democrat to vote in support of Green’s articles of impeachment. Another black lawmaker and member of Democratic leadership, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), has also voted in favor of impeachment.
A total of 58 Democrats first voted in support of Green’s articles of impeachment last month. But the number grew to 66 when Green forced another vote on Jan. 19 following Trump’s profane remarks.
Nearly all of the Democrats on the record in support of impeachment represent deep-blue districts where their constituents want their lawmakers to show resistance to Trump. Indeed, most CBC members hail from districts that are a lock for Democrats.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), a former CBC chairman, originally voted to table the articles of impeachment in December. But he had a change of heart in the ensuing month after hearing his constituents’ outrage over the Trump administration.
“I had hoped to see improvements at the White House, but every day brings another scandal. Enough is enough. The time has come to have an open and transparent debate on the issue of impeachment on the floor of the House of Representatives,” Butterfield said in a statement provided by his office.
The fiery debate over race and ethnicity has been at the center of the current fight over the fate of so-called Dreamers, immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
As part of legislation to salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Trump and GOP leaders are pressing for new restrictions on the ability of U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents to bring relatives into the country. The Democrats refer to the program as one encouraging “family reunification,” while the Republicans label the process “chain migration.”
The reference to chains has stirred no lack of antipathy from CBC members, who have long accused Trump of advancing white nationalist sentiments and who think the president is blowing dog whistles to his white, conservative base.
“My great, great, great grandfather wouldn’t call [how] he came over here anything but chained migration. And he was brought here from Cameroon,” said Cleaver.
“Donald Trump has never insulted any group accidentally. He knows what he’s doing, and it hurts.”
Still, Cleaver has declined to join the impeachment push, expressing concerns that it could lend ammunition to critics of the ongoing probe by special prosecutor Robert Mueller into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russians meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
“One of the worst mistakes we could make is to create the image to his base that our goal is first and foremost the impeachment of Donald Trump,” Cleaver said.“Don’t misunderstand me: I’m not saying that he’s a good [person],” he quickly added. “But in spite of how he has treated my people, my race, I’m not going to allow him to influence me to be like him.”
Trump’s relationship with the CBC hasn’t been helped by his personal attacks on two of its members.
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights icon, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” shortly before the inauguration last year that he didn’t see Trump as a “legitimate” president. Trump drew bipartisan criticism when he tweeted in retaliation that Lewis is “all talk, talk, talk — no action or results. Sad!”
Trump later lashed out at Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), whom he called “wacky” on Twitter after she offered a critical account of his phone call to the wife of a fallen soldier.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, both Lewis and Wilson voted in favor of impeachment and boycotted the State of the Union.
“I’ve got to be moved by my conscience,” Lewis said.
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I agree - he should leave these things to his underlings and leave this crap alone.
Finally, a decade goes by and I find a post of yours I can agree with. Progress!